Package: pristine-tar Version: 1.03 Severity: wishlist It would be great if pristine-tar could arrange to support zip archives (perhaps thinly disguised with role-based extensions). My immediate interest is in coping with a pile of .htb (wxWidgets help) files from a particular project, which git treats as independent incompressible multi-megabyte blobs. However, packagers who have to repack overall upstream archives solely to convert them to acceptable formats could also make use of such a tool so as to be able to efficiently track their actual starting points for reference.
One potential wrinkle is that zip archives are "inside out" relative to tarballs, consisting of individually compressed members amongst uncompressed metadata. At any rate, thanks in advance for considering this suggestion! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
